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Japanese Premiere
Philip Glass
„Mishima“ Concerto for Piano and Orchestra

Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
Dennis Russell Davies : Conductor

September 28th, 2024, 2:00pm
Minatomirai Concert Hall / Yokohama (Tokyo), Japan

Photo: Zoe Goldstein

Solo at Philharmonie de Paris

Philip Glass’ piano solo works

November 17, 2024, 7pm
Philharmonie de Paris / Paris, France

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Solo Debut at Wigmore Hall London

Philip Glass : Etudes, Distant Figure A Passacaglia (UK Premiere), MISHIMA (UK Premiere)
Piano Sonata (UK Premiere)

February 19th, 2025, 7:30pm
Wigmore Hall / London, United Kingdom

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Solo Recital: “5 Piano Stars”

Keith Jarrett : Ritual
Philip Glass : Etudes Excerpts
Chick Corea : Children‘s Songs Excerpts
Philip Glass : Piano Sonata

February 9th, 2025, 4:00pm
Salle Philharmonique / Lìège, Belgium

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Pianographique
200th Birthday Bedřich Smetana
in NY

„Ma Vlast“ (My Country)
Piano 4 Hands Version by Bedřich Smetana

Piano Duo Namekawa – Davies
Real-Time Visualizations by Cori O‘Lan

October 22th, 2024, 7:00pm
Czech Center / New York, USA

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

„Motion Picture“
The Hours & Dracula by Philip Glass

arr. for Piano Solo & Cello Octet by Michael Riesman
with Cello Octet Amsterdam
Real-Time Visualizations by Cori O‘Lan

September 6th, 2024, 7:00pm
at the Ars Electronica Festival 2024
Big Concert Night (sold out)
POSTCITY, Train Hall / Linz, Austria

Photo: Juri Hiensch

Keith Jarrett „The Köln Concert“ in London (Sold Out)

June 15th, 2024, 7:30pm
Bold Tendencies / London, Great Britain

Photo: Zoe Goldstein

Debut at the Verbier Festival

with Angelique Kidjo
Appassionato / Mathieu Herzog

Africans Songs & Chanson Française of Brel and Piaf

July 24, 2024, 6:30pm
Salle des Combins / Verbier, Switzerland

Photo: Holland Festival 2022

Debut at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA

Philip Glass : The Complete Etudes

March 19th, 8pm, 2024
Walt Disney Concert Hall / Los Angeles, USA

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Lincoln Center‘s Fall Gala

Philip Glass‘ The Piano Etudes

November 20th, 8pm, 2023
Wu Tsai Theater, Lincoln Center / New York City, USA

Photo: Florian Voggeneder

Geffen Hall in NY Debut

Philip Glass‘ The Complete Piano Etudes

November 19th, 7pm, 2023
David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center / New York City, USA

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesinich

The Artists 2023

Dance Performances with Ballet

August 11th/12th, 6pm, 2023
Bunkyo Civic Hall / Tokyo, Japan

Photo: Tiler Peck, Portrait by Yumiko Inoue / Maki Namekawa, Portrait by Andrej Uspenski

“Dancing with Glass”

The Piano Etudes by Philip Glass

November 28th – December 10th, 2023
The Joyce Theatre / New York City, USA

Photo: Pomegranate Arts

Keith Jarrett „The Köln Concert“

September 19th, 7:30pm, 2023
Beethovenfest / Bonn, Germany

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Philip Glass „The Complete 20 Piano Etudes“

September 2nd, 7.30pm, 2023
Bold Tendencies / London, United Kingdom

Photo: Andreas H. Bitesinich

Debut at the Gewandhaus Leipzig

MDR Sinfonieorchester, Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

THU June 14th 2022, 8 PM, Leipzig Gewandhaus / Germany

Philip Glass – Piano Sonata

CD and Vinyl released!

Philip Glass – Songs

New Release

Martin Achrainer & Maki Namekawa

Credit: Andreas H. Bitesnich

Chick Corea – Children’s Songs

Supertrain Music is proud to announce the availability of Maki Namekawa’s new digital release, Chick Corea’s CHILDREN’S SONGS. Known as one of the great jazz musicians of the last 50 years, Chick Corea frequently interacted with the world of classical music and published a number of pieces including a large collection of 20 pieces for piano which he called “Children’s Songs” meant, in the composer’s words, “to convey simplicity as beauty, as represented in the spirit of a child.” Corea began work on the set in 1971 and completed them in 1984 when he released his own recording of them. Seizing on the most playful of the pieces, Namekawa chose to record a subset of seven pieces (Nos.4,6,11,14,16,18 and 20) which she selected for their particular beauty.

Namekawa stated in January 2022, “Last year, during the second winter Corona lock-down when artists and performers everywhere were struggling with questions about purpose and identity, I stumbled upon a stimulating posting by Pianist and programmer Rico Gulda, the youngest son of the legendary Austrian pianist/composer Friedrich Gulda. Rico talked about the friendship and musical connection between his father and and the recently deceased Chick Corea, and included a video of his father‘s 1987 performance in Madrid of five “Children’s Songs”. I was mesmerized by the music and by Gulda’s joyful, uninhibited performance, as if I were myself listening in that Madrid hall. I immediately ordered the music, and upon opening the score, was stunned by the subtle skillfulness and simplicity of the notation, thinking back to Friedrich Gulda’s colorful and charming interpretation. Later I found a line from Chick Corea which helped unlock the puzzle: this idea “to convey simplicity as beauty, as represented in the spirit of a child”.

The “Children’s Songs” have become a kind of “Corona Project”, but I continue to feel pure joy each time I hear or play this wonderful music.

The release new recording marked the one year anniversary of the great Chick Corea’s death on 9 February 2021.

World Premier Recording

Philip Glass’
Piano Sonata